Linux 2.6.12

ALSA now uses dmix (software mixing) by default even if you have not configured it

ALPS touchpad (included on many laptops) driver rework

Multipath device mapper

Improved SATA support

The firewire subsystem finally saw some action

Plenty of new hardware support, lots of things that I missed

Lots of bug fixes and internal improvements

The first gentoo-sources-2.6.12 release has been added to the tree and features the new inotify (0.23-13) as well as the new fbsplash (0.9.2-r3). Since we moved our patches into Gentoo’s shiny new Subversion server the website generation is broken but this will be updated soon. Also note that your custom udev rules might be broken until you upgrade to udev-058.

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Where does one find more information about this ? I did not see anything in ALSA changelog. Maybe I missed it.

The ALSA thing is not really new. It’s been around ever since 1.0.9-rc1 (though I suspect it’s improved by now). Can’t wait to see software mixing support for oss apps that mmap the device (doom3 for instance).

One of the new pieces of hardware that’s found support in the mainline kernel (has had for a couple of months support in the mm series), is the elo serial touchscreen driver. I can’t test till Thursday, unfortunately, but I’m *really* looking forward to that.